Senior Founding Engineer – AI Learning Platform

SalesAPE.ai is building an AI Learning Platform aimed at transforming how small businesses operate. They are seeking a Senior Founding Engineer to architect and build a self-improving intelligence layer that enhances customer interactions and outcomes through continuous learning and data-driven recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• You will spend the vast majority of your time architecting, writing, and shipping production-ready code
• You will inherit a seeded prototype of our knowledge layer and harden it into a robust, scalable, and resilient production platform
• You will partner closely with the Senior Leadership Team to ruthlessly prioritize the technical roadmap
• You will guide other engineers on architectural standards and act as a protective buffer—keeping them safe from the daily "noise" of a fast-growing startup so they can focus on deep, uninterrupted builder mode
• You will design, own, and scale the architecture behind a continuously learning platform
• Specific areas of focus include: Event collection architecture & customer interaction pipelines to capture rich interaction logs cleanly
• Outcome measurement frameworks to tie AI suggestions to actual business outcomes (sales, retention, clicks)
• Recommendation & feedback loops that let the AI automatically improve its behavioral models based on real evidence
• Knowledge graphs, vector databases, and memory/retrieval systems that serve as our persistent cross-product intelligence
• Experimentation infrastructure & feature stores to run secure experiments and manage features efficiently
• Model independence & deployment strategy to architect the system so we can run our own or open-source models on our own infrastructure where it makes sense—a deliberate lever to stay independent of any single LLM provider on both capability and cost
• Evaluation frameworks to continuously benchmark and validate prompt and model improvements